About ToposText
A project of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation A new way of experiencing Europe’s most ancient literary culture, implanted in its unforgettable landscape. ToposText is a new interface that links readers and travelers to
A project of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation
A new way of experiencing Europe’s most ancient literary culture, implanted in its unforgettable landscape.
ToposText is a new interface that links readers and travelers to Europe’s most ancient literary culture and to the Greek landscape that inspired it. TT presents 5000 places relevant to the ancient Greek world -- ancient cities and shrines, medieval castles and towers, modern museums and excavation sites -- primarily in Greece but including major places from Spain to the Caucasus. It links those places to the ancient authors who wrote about them in Greek or Latin. A large classical library married to an up-to-date gazetteer, freely available as a mobile application or this web site.
Education / Reference Tool:
- Accurate coordinates for thousands of Greek historical sites
- Each site indexed to the ancient literary sources that mention it.
- A huge, free, portable library of classical texts in English
- Texts and places stored on-device – no internet access necessary.
- Location-aware display of site information.
- Recent archaeological information on many sites.
Dec 1, 2023
Version 3.2
Five new ancient texts (817 total), including the Life of St. Porphyrios of Gaza, the indispensable commentary by the Tzetzes brothers to Lycophron's Alexandra, and a new English translation of Cristoforo Buondelmonti's Description of the Archipelago (1420 CE).
Significant bug fixes as well, including moving the border of Epiros closer to where it belongs.
Lots of new people and a few new places.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of ToposText since it was posted on our website on 2021-12-14 16:00:29.
The latest version is 3.2 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 08:41:28. See below the changes in each version.
ToposText version 3.2
Updated At: 2023-12-01
Changes: Dec 1, 2023
Version 3.2
Five new ancient texts (817 total), including the Life of St. Porphyrios of Gaza, the indispensable commentary by the Tzetzes brothers to Lycophron's Alexandra, and a new English translation of Cristoforo Buondelmonti's Description of the Archipelago (1420 CE).
Significant bug fixes as well, including moving the border of Epiros closer to where it belongs.
Lots of new people and a few new places.
ToposText version 3.1
Updated At: 2023-08-16
Changes: Aug 16, 2023
Version 3.1
- Now including 812 ancient texts (200 authors) and improved Wikipedia/Wikidata links to a new total of 8235 ancient places and 16532 ancient people/tribes/concepts.
- Bug Fixes
ToposText version 3.0
Updated At: 2021-11-20
Changes: Nov 20, 2021 Version 3.0
ToposText 3.0 (November 2021) includes:
- Important bug fixes to restore key navigational controls on larger/newer iPhones.
- User interface improvements.
- A dozen new ancient texts, to reach 800, plus Col. William Leake's fascinating 1805-9 travels in the Morea and Northern Greece.
- Major improvements to the Persons database, with thousands of new or improved entries (now 15000+) and Wikipedia/Wikidata links.
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